Iona University
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Iona University is a private Catholic university located in New Rochelle, New York, known for its liberal arts, business, and professional programs.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iona University canonical | 21 |
| Iona College | 3 |
| Iona University Department of Athletics | 1 |
| Iona University athletics | 1 |
| Iona University campus | 1 |
| Mercy University | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T254561 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iona University Context triple: [Westchester County, New York, contains, Iona University]
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A.
Marymount University
Marymount University is a private Catholic liberal arts university located in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.
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B.
Marist College
Marist College is a private liberal arts college located along the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, New York, known for its strong programs in communications, business, and study abroad.
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C.
Innis College
Innis College is one of the smaller undergraduate colleges at the University of Toronto, known for its close-knit community and strong programs in cinema studies and urban studies.
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D.
Daemen University
Daemen University is a private university known for its career-focused undergraduate and graduate programs, located in Amherst in the Buffalo–Niagara region of New York State.
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E.
Aquinas College
Aquinas College is a private Catholic liberal arts college located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iona University Target entity description: Iona University is a private Catholic university located in New Rochelle, New York, known for its liberal arts, business, and professional programs.
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A.
Marymount University
Marymount University is a private Catholic liberal arts university located in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.
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B.
Marist College
Marist College is a private liberal arts college located along the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, New York, known for its strong programs in communications, business, and study abroad.
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C.
Innis College
Innis College is one of the smaller undergraduate colleges at the University of Toronto, known for its close-knit community and strong programs in cinema studies and urban studies.
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D.
Daemen University
Daemen University is a private university known for its career-focused undergraduate and graduate programs, located in Amherst in the Buffalo–Niagara region of New York State.
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E.
Aquinas College
Aquinas College is a private Catholic liberal arts college located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Iona University Description of subject: Iona University is a private Catholic university located in New Rochelle, New York, known for its liberal arts, business, and professional programs.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mercy University
this entity surface form:
Iona College
this entity surface form:
Iona University athletics
this entity surface form:
Iona University Department of Athletics
this entity surface form:
Iona College
subject surface form:
School of Arts & Science at Iona University
subject surface form:
School of Arts & Science at Iona University
this entity surface form:
Iona College